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Private Property Rights to Wildlife: The Southern African Experiment. [PDF]

In most nations around the world wildlife are owned and managed by the State. However, in the past 30 years Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have altered their legal regimes to give full control over the use of wildlife to the private owners of the ...
Kay Muir-Leresche, Robert H. Nelson
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Semi-wildlife gait patterns classification using Statistical Methods and Artificial Neural Networks [PDF]

, 2017
Several studies have focused on classifying behavioral patterns in wildlife and captive species to monitor their activities and so to understanding the interactions of animals and control their welfare, for biological research or commercial purposes.
Domínguez Morales, Juan Pedro, Domínguez Morales, Manuel Jesús, Gutiérrez Galán, Daniel, Gómez Rodríguez, Francisco de Asís, Jiménez Fernández, Ángel Francisco, Linares Barranco, Alejandro, Miró Amarante, María Lourdes, Rivas Pérez, Manuel   +7 more
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Project MOSI: rationale and pilot-study results of an initiative to help protect zoo animals from mosquito-transmitted pathogens and contribute data on mosquito spatio–temporal distribution change [PDF]

, 2015
Mosquito-borne pathogens pose major threats to both wildlife and human health and, largely as a result of unintentional human-aided dispersal of their vector species, their cumulative threat is on the rise.
Albertini, M, Carlsen, F, Cunningham, A A, Daniel, B A, Flach, E, Hofer, H, Junhold, J, Kock, R A, Leather, S, Masters, N, Pearce-Kelly, P, Preziosi, R, Quintavalle Pastorino, G, Routh, A, Sainsbury, A W, Sato, Y, Spencer, W   +16 more
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Duck Orbivirus and Egg Production: A Newly Identified Duck Orbivirus Is the Etiological Agent of Egg Production Decline in Chinese Breeder Ducks

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Field samples from breeder duck farms with egg‐production decline were subjected to viral detection, genome sequencing, and virus isolation. Experimental infection demonstrated that duck orbivirus (DORV) causes a significant and persistent reduction in egg production in breeder ducks.
Bing Li, Jianhua Wang, Xuezhi Cui, Xinxing Chu, You Wang, Dongmin Hao, Mingqing Xu, Haixia Chang, Huihui Li, Mingtian Mao, Mian Wu, Chengguang Lu, Jing Tang, Suyun Liang, Zhanbao Guo, Zhengkui Zhou, Youxiang Diao, Shuisheng Hou, Yi Tang   +18 more
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Wildlife and Human Diseases: Symptoms of Endangered Marine Ecosystems & Climate Change [PDF]

, 2001
The Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School; Wildlife Trust; the Consortium for Conservation Medicine; and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute hosted a Congressional briefing entitled "Wildlife and Human Diseases ...
Naomi Friedman
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett, Bonny L. Hartley, Deborah Wallace, Adewale Magaji, Lorraine Smith, Rachel Wolfendale   +5 more
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Analyzing the sustainability of the environmental and socio-economic externalities of the Limpopo National Park (Mozambique) since its institution

Frontiers in Conservation Science
The institutionalization of the Limpopo National Park (LNP) presented a significant challenge in balancing environmental conservation goals with the needs of local communities.
Juvência Yolanda Malate, Juvência Yolanda Malate, Angelo Fierravanti, Angelo Fierravanti, Almeida Alberto Sitoe, Manuel Luís Tibério, Manuel Luís Tibério, Luís Filipe Gomes Lopes, Luís Filipe Gomes Lopes   +8 more
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Net Costs of Wildlife Damage on Private Lands [PDF]

This study models net welfare impacts on producers who receive utility from on-farm wildlife populations that are not costlessly disposable. Wildlife damage levels where net benefits are zero indicate producers' maximum willingness to pay for on-farm ...
Heigh, Lori, Kanetkar, Vinay, Rollins, Kimberly S.   +2 more
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The epidemiology of cryptosporidium at the wildlife-livestock and human interface on the western boundary of the Kruger National Park [PDF]

, 2009
Cryptosporidium has emerged as one of the most important zoonotic coccidian parasites affecting a wide range of wild and domestic animals and men. It causes severe life-threatening diarrhoea in neonates and immunocompromised individuals, especially in ...
Abu Samra, Nada, Jori, Ferran, Samie, Amidou, Thompson, Peter, Woods, P.   +4 more
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